I've installed 7.2. I have 2 Linksys cards version 2 and ver 4. The ver 2
has a Lite-On-PNIC2 chip and the ver 4 reports AMDtek Comet ver 17, both of
them use, i think tulip modules and works fine for me straight from the box.
Hope this is of any help
Cheers
Sridhar
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Rankin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ron Marriage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "mandrake"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2001 7:32 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Need HELP Compiling tulip.c for Linksys NC100 NIC
> Ron Marriage wrote:
>
> > Hi Dave,
> >
> > Linksys NC100 cards actually come in several different
> > versions.
> > All of them have wonderful penquins and runs in Linux labels
> > all over them. The floppy that comes with them all has a
> > linux directory and a driver. Beyond that they don't tell
> > much.
> >
> > Linksys models 1 and 2 work well in Linux and the included
> > driver works fine.
> > Linksys model 3 works in some PCs but you have to do as you
> > have done and recompile your own driver and add the other
> > software to do so.
> > Linksys model 4 won't work even if you stand on your head
> > and recompile.
> > Linksys model 4A won't work for anything.
> >
> > Version numbers are usually on the box and floppy.
> >
> > All of them work fine in Windows, which isn't saying much.
> > <grin>
> > If you have a version 3, 4, or 4A card save your self some
> > work.
>
> Ron, I have version 2. The standard tulip.o that ships with Mandrake 7.2
> doesn't work. The driver disk has a linux directory, but it simply
contains a
> readme.txt that tells you to download the latest tulip.c, pci-scan.c and
> kernel_compat.h and compile tulip and pci-scan and install. My problem is
that
> I can't get gcc to compile tulip or pci-scan, I just get reems of errors.
I
> need help on how to get the tulip.c to compile.
>
> Thanks for the information, I'll keep chasing this problem down..
>
> --
> David Rankin
> Nacogdoches, Texas
>
>
>
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